Current MA and PhD Students
The following are select sociology graduate students.
Jason Mark Alexander
Email: jasonma@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Decolonial Social Movements, Japan-Myanmar Relations, Demilitarization, Environmental Justice, Transindigenous Futures
Advisor: Aya Kimura
Amanda Bonesteel-Kratt
Email: aboneste@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Medical Sociology, Public Health, the Politics of Health, Political Science, Human Behavior, Misinformation Implications
Advisor: Krysia Mossakowski
Penny-Bee Kapilialoha Bovard
Email: pennybee@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Feminist and Oceanic Pedagogies and Methodologies. Sociology of Gender and Sport. Feminist Criminology
Advisor: Katherine Irwin
Austin (Keaupuni) Davis
Email: davisaus@hawaii.edu
Program: MA
Research Interests: Hawaiian Sociology, Indigenous Paradigm, Argo-food Systems, Sts Studies, Asia-pacific Relations, Mixed Methods
Advisor: Aya Kimura
Kelly Duong
Email: kduong3@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Medical Sociology, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), Mental Health, Gender
Advisor: Wei Zhang
Rachel Engel
Email: rengel@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Racism, Colorism, Globalization, Southeast Asia
Advisor: Nandita Sharma
Aralen "Hāʻilima" Haiola
Email: ahaiola@hawaii.edu
Program: MA
Research Interests: Native Hawaiian Student Success, Aloha ʻĀina, ʻIke Kupuna, ʻImi Naʻauao, Kuleana, Mōʻike Aloha, and Place-Based Identity
Advisor: Katherine Irwin
Matthieu Kalua
Email: mkalua4@hawaii.edu
Program: MA
Research Interests: Medical Sociology, Medical Anthropology, Women's Health, Trans Health, Reproductive Violence, Sexual/Gender Based Violence (SGBV), Intersectional-Socialist Feminism
Advisor: Krysia Mossakowski
Jaeho Kook
Email: jkook@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Sociology of Technology, Sociology of Sports, Globalization, Global Football (soccer), Critical Theory
Advisor: Manfred Steger
Zachary Kubo
Email: zkubo@hawaii.edu
Program: MA
Research Interests: Marxism/Dialectical Materialism, Colonialism in Hawaiʻi
Advisor: Jennifer Darrah
S. M. Anowarul Kayes Shimul
Email: shimul@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Political Ecology, Health Inequality, STS, & Social Policy
Advisor: Aya Kimura
Carlie Peterson-Mosher
Email: carlier@hawaii.edu
Program: MA
Research Interests: Criminology, Deviance and Social Control, Gender, Feminism
Advisor: Katherine Irwin
Aya Shirayama
Email: ayashira@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Ethnicity, Identity, Diaspora, Food, Indigenous Sociology, Okinawans, Asia-Pacific, Qualitative Research
Advisor: Aya Kimura
Lynne Wolforth
Email: wolforth@hawaii.edu
Program: MA
Research Interests: Medical Sociology, Sociology of Health, Maternal & Infant Health, Quantitative Methods
Advisor: Krysia Mossakowski